Stop and Transmit

Opposite meaning words

Stop verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.

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Transmit is an antonym for stop.

Nearby Words: stopped, stopper, stopping, stopover

Transmit verb - To cause (something) to pass from one to another.

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Stop is an antonym for transmit in communicate topic.

people	stop people	transmit people
signal	stop signal	transmit signal
plague	stop plague	transmit plague
pain	stop pain	transmit pain
Other words: curse, virus, plans.

This trope arose because Morse Code did not have a method to transmit punctuation beyond spelling it out (writing down "comma", or most famously, a full stop).

Source: Telegraph Gag STOP
Furthermore, even if it does have some way to transmit, but they can't change the codes for some other reason, what's to stop them from cutting the line?

Source: Film / Olympus Has Fallen
This didn't stop them from continuing to transmit reports back to America with news of what was going on in the hotel.

Source: Deadline News

Cite this Source

Transmit and Stop. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/stop/transmit

Stop & Transmit. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/stop/transmit>.

Transmit or Stop. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/stop/transmit.

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